Global Courant 2023-05-01 11:06:20
For a long time the demands for improvement in educational coverage and quality have gone down the drain of convenience, state indifference (or inefficiency) and secret union pacts, as if they did not matter. However, times take their toll on the omissions and this seems to be the critical moment for the country. Studies about the opportunities for human talent show a shortage of people trained in technological areas and digital engineering: two fields in which there are positions with promising remuneration.
Absurd fears and mediocre teaching methodologies to bring students closer to mathematical sciences generate a kind of aversion to careers that have this area as a prerequisite. The belief that it is an innate aptitude and not a pre-installed capacity blocks, creates rejection and aborts vocations for the exact sciences. At the level of public education, the deficiency of teachers capable of transmitting Geometry, Arithmetic, Algebra and Fundamental Physics with sufficient fortitude to foster fresh minds open to innovation and creativity in these fields is especially serious. Memory prejudices and didactic gaps create an almost insurmountable gap between the present student and future job performance.
The deficit of profiles suitable to work in technological workspaces is high. There are a few options for training young adults, but the ideal process is for such vocations to be proactively encouraged beginning in primary and secondary school. There are teachers who, in effect, encourage it, yes, but they are not the majority.
Despite the importance of human capital, few or no presidential candidates dare to offer a transformation of the public education system and even of the supervision of the private system. There are schools with excellence in the development of abstract intelligence, fertile for continuing the path of technological innovation, but they are very few. To this we must add the exodus of brains, minors who leave for the United States —accompanied or not— to seek economic improvements, regardless of a high IQ or creative potential that rarely shines. beyond the borders.
On this Labor Day there are so many just demands, but also outdated slogans and claims for privileges that conflict with personal and national competitiveness in a highly demanding world. Many unionized teachers—not all—demand stability, ranks, better pay, but without wanting to go through a performance evaluation. Those who in the long run pay the price for their perks are the children and young people who graduate without having acquired the skills or knowledge that would allow them to seek better and more dignified spaces for development.
It is time for there to be an educational policy focused on the labor reality and not on paradigms from half a century ago. It is also time for more companies to follow the example of those that already promote, support, or sponsor educational efforts, whether through campuses or scholarships, especially at the basic, diversified, and university levels, to cultivate that much-needed human capital. In several countries that is the smart and visionary bet that better human capitals. Undertaking it is an unavoidable condition for progress.
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